TO SAY THAT LOKI IS PROUD OF HIS CHILDREN WOULD BE INSUFFICIENT : beloved , dearly , each one , even in the face of ragnarok . monsters , asgard calls them ————— shunted of to the edges of the nine realms , to be hidden away like asgard’s most shameful secrets . but loki knows them for what they truly are , not what odin believes them to be . and if the price of their existence is ASGARD’S DOOM , well ————— what is that but a small price to pay ?
if it were up to him , he would have long since returned them all to his side . is EXILE the price they must pay for existing ? they’ve committed no crime between them all , save being of his own blood . his daughter , GODDESS OF DEATH , should be at his side , a princess of asgard , not banished to the halls of hel .
❛ ugh , must you live like this ? ❜ distaste coats his voice as he eyes her abode . ❛ if you so desired , i could have you back at my side . or at least somewhere with a touch more sunlight . ❜
one could describe the likes of niflheim or helheim as desolate realms, but she herself had come to find comfort and beauty. hel had her qualms with asgard’s shining lights and vibrant colors, and those who huddled within it’s protection ; but that realm was of little true concern to her. the gloom of her own had easily won out --- dark rolling hills, deep treacherous waters, black mist in the atmosphere, frozen wastes and what amounted to a castle of high spires and glorious architecture --- it was haunting to some, and yet? refuge for the goddess.
she was no princess, she had no want for such a life nor title. she was deemed queen here, goddess even, to some. she ruled herself, she was not ruled by others and that was satisfying --- banished here or not... this realm was hers.
❛ sunlight has never suited me, ❜ she did not necessarily feel alone her in as human sense f the term... it was that loneliness that centuries in a world with no more than garmr or níðhöggr to stave the ebb, outside of passing souls wherever they earned there stay. ❛ --- it has always suited you far better than myself, or even my kin. ❜
